Sentify

At-A-Glance

Problem: As an avid music lover, I'm constantly looking for new music to add to my various playlists. Although Spotify has by far the best recommendation system when compared to other music streaming platforms (in my opinion), there few options to get on-demand new music recommendations. The main way, outside of album releases, I find music is through either Spotify's "Discover Weekly" or "Daily Mix" playlists.

Solution: A web application that generates a Spotify playlist of up to 100 songs based on your top artists/tracks of a given time period. I added the sentiment analysis feature, because at the time I had the idea for this project I recently completed an intership which focus heavily on sentiment analysis and wanted to play around with its use.

Tech Stack

Backend:

• Language(s):

  

• Libraries/Frameworks: Vader Sentiment Analysis, FastAPI (Also tried using Flask for REST API creation)

Frontend:

• Language(s):

  

• Libraries/Frameworks: Vue, Tailwind, Daisy UI, Axios

Running the application

Before you do anything the terminal, you need to set up two .env, one in the root directory of the /api and one in the root directory of the /sentify .

# .env in /api directory
spotify_client_id = "Spotify client id from Spotify Developer Dashboard"
spotify_token = "Spotify token from Spotify Developer Dashboard"
redirect_uri = "http://desired_redirect_uri" #You determine this in the Spotify Developer Dashboard
PORT = 5000 #Or any port you want to run your API on.

#.env in /sentify directory
PORT = 3000 #Or any port you want to run your frontend on.
VITE_API_BASE_URL = "http://api_url"

Now you will install you dependencies in both the /api and /sentify directories.

For /sentify you must have Node installed:

cd sentify
npm install

For /api you need to install a Python dependency package called Poetry which can be installed though pip or pipx:

pip install install poetry

Now that Poetry is installed, let's install the API dependencies:

cd api
poetry install

Okay...NOW let's run the app. Start with running the api:

cd api
poetry run main

and run the frontend:

cd sentify
npm run dev

Your application will be reunning on http://localhost:3000 (or what ever port you chose for the frontend .env variable).